Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. - David Petar Novakovic
i'd like to think that moves like Chrome (of which i am not a fan boy) and cappuccino can strengthen the use of js for web apps. I'm rather opposed to both flash AND silverlight, unless one of them is completely open sourced and embedded in every browser.... - David Petar Novakovic
+5 David Peter Novakovic. Open up or get it off the web. For video particularly, there's no excuse for using proprietary wrappers. - Logical Extremes
The number one job of our Federal government is running a military organization to protect our country. He's addressing the job he is applying for not playing to peoples fears. - ChiliMac via twhirl
@Chili Don't use logic, it will just make their heads explode - John Denver
@David: What do WMD's have to do with this post? And none being found does not mean they did not exist. Sadam gave us every reason to believe they were there. - ChiliMac
So getting shot down in a war we lost proves McCain can run the military. Also, getting hit by a train proves you can run Amtrak. - Karim
Also I believe "Porkins," whose X-wing exploded at the end of "Star Wars," said that getting shot down gave him the experience necessary to lead the Rebel Alliance. - Karim
@Karim: Seriously, do you think that is all that Sen McCain has for military experience? - ChiliMac
Of course not! He flew a desk at NAVSEA. He successfully lobbied Congress to build a new aircraft carrier, *against* the wishes of the Secretary of the Navy and despite a Presidential veto. He is a co-chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee that failed to budget for up-armored Humvees in Iraq. He also flew a Skyraider into some power lines if memory serves. - Karim
@Karim: I don't see how having a desk job for part of his career is a negative thing. After all that was after his time as POW so he probably was not physically fit to fly any longer. I cannot speak knowledgeably on the aircraft carrier issue. There is a whole lot of blame to go around on the armored humvee issue. In general the armed forces have been underfunded for years. Yes, John McCain did hit power lines in Spain I believe with an A-1 Skyraider. I don't see that as lessening his fitness to be POTUS. - ChiliMac
Well, first you were asking about McCain's "military experience," and now you're talking about his fitness to be President. You say you "cannot speak knowledgeably" about the aircraft carrier, and that other people share the blame for sending our troops off to war insufficiently armored. - Karim
I think if you work hard to give our country a $2 billion (1978 dollars) nuclear aircraft carrier it *doesn't* need during peacetime, and drag your feet getting them the truck armor it *does* need during wartime, this calls into question the relevance of your "military experience" to the job of Commander-in-Chief. - Karim
@Karim: Is Sen McCain record perfect, no. Anyone with this much experience is going to have blemishes. But that cannot wash away all the good experience either. Short of Pres Bush 41 he has the best experience of any candidate we have had in the last 30 years that I can think of. - ChiliMac
@Karim: All I can say is it is better to get equipment in peace time that may be needed if we go to war then it is to not get the equipment & find us in a bad situation when war starts. If we had been thinking that way maybe there would have been a better supply of armored vehicles for the war we are in now. FYI, if you don't see any more replies from me this weekend it's because I have lots to do an little time to do the research to discuss my perspective knowledgeably. Also, I'm tired of talking politics. - ChiliMac
Well nobody has a perfect record, and certainly reasonable people can disagree about whether McCain's experience makes him the best candidate. While it is commendable that McCain has honorably served his country, I *personally* think that graduating magna cum laude from Harvard and being President of the Harvard Law Review is better "experience" to have for POTUS than does, say, graduating near the bottom of your class at the Naval Academy and crashing five aircraft. But that's just me... :-D - Karim
The Disco core is written in Erlang. The MapReduce jobs in Disco are natively described as Python programs, which makes it possible to express complex algorithmic and data processing tasks often only in tens of lines of code. - David Petar Novakovic
I just don't like the tab looks like opera - Steve
Actually, the animated GIFs is an honest deal-breaker for me. I absolutely can't stand them. - Akiva Moskovitz
Seems to load sites very quickly, but video playback seems to drop frames a lot. - Michael Tefft
I honestly don't see what's so worth freaking out over. If it had been released by anyone other than Google, people would be yawning. 'Yeah, just what we need: another dumb browser.' - Akiva Moskovitz
Actually, you're wrong. This browser was (essentially) released by Apple, and they called it Safari. This outperforms Safari in every meaningful way, though, in terms of speed and memory usage. In short, it just isn't bloated. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Safari, like all other modern browsers, also follows Opera in terms of browser innovation. Tabs on top? Check. Tiny footprint? Check. Speed? Check. - Akiva Moskovitz
The cool is all under the hood. Multi-process, tab sandbox, V8, etc. If you don't appreciate that stuff, then you probably aren't all that concerned with frontend development. Will it be so much faster as a result of those improvements that Chrome is adopted in large numbers? I doubt it. That doesn't make the advances in browser technology any less cool (to me). - Jason Wehmhoener
Oh, I don't doubt that there's some innovation here. I actually LIKE the browser and can see that there is a ton of potential there. But that's all that there is: potential. But all of the rubbish, 'LOLOLOL MICROSOFT MIGHT AS WELL FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY NOW,' and 'OMG REFORMATTING MY COMPUTER JUST SO THE ONLY THING INSTALLED IS GOOGLE CHROME!!!!!!' is ridiculous. - Akiva Moskovitz
Kind reminds me of Opera 3, but not as good. - Michael W. May
Yeah, I'm not buying that this is the beginning of the "Google as an OS thing." There's a lot more to it than that. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Frankly I see this as Google accepting that the "browser is the interface" is not really goign to fly. Chrome is not a general purpose browser, it is a highly optimized client for Googles cloud services... as such it's no different than any other remote smart client tool. - Soulhuntre
Um no and i don't really care if they choose a musician :Mad ! - Victor
I certainly hope you are using that word in it's original context, that of happy or good... and if so, I agree, it is a good way! - John Worthington
Anthony, yes, perhaps "ghey" would be the better spelling. - David Risley
If David you are saying that it's kinda "happy" then I agree and if you say it's kinda "homosexual" then I think that's a good thing. Now, if you think that calling things "gay" is equal to something not good then I have to say that your thinking is not good. Need to rethink your world view. - Robert Scoble
It would probably be in your best interest to avoid that terminology in the future David. You are bound to run into conflict with it. - Simian DA (Amber)
Simian: I think David needs to be sent on a trip to Berlin to study Germany's history and where it went wrong. The use of language against other people is horrible. I won't allow it to be used that way here. David is very close to getting a block. - Robert Scoble
This just earned David a block. David, you really need to go back and study Nazi world history. How you can use a perjorative against any group without expecting to see consequences is pretty over the line in my book. - Robert Scoble
Dude. It's the best explanation of a browser I've ever seen. I can't wait to see Ponzi's reaction to it, if she'd like to make it all the way through (though I do believe it'd be easier to digest as a single PDF). - l0ckergn0me
I gotta head out, but guys, seriously, let's not turn this into a political correctness debate. I meant lame, stupid, etc. I was not, in any way, referring to homosexuals. Guess I need to leave the slang out of FriendFeed from now on. - David Risley
David: when you use language that you don't understand the roots of you come across as not only hurtful but stupid. Whenever you say "gay" it comes across here as "homosexual." That's been a word used in United States to ONLY mean that for decades. - Robert Scoble
And yes, if anybody thought I was referring to homosexuals, I apologize. It was in bad taste, in retrospect. - David Risley
It grabs attention much better than black and white script on a page with a bold headline. It's a great way for people to take notice and guess what? It worked. - ::Kristen::
you can justify your ignorant use of such a term, but it only serves to alert me that you're 11 and haven't been taught better. is that the angle you're going for? i still can't believe almost a decade out, people are 1) still using that offensive term and 2) defending said use. - faboo mama
I am so tired of people using "slang" like this and excusing it by claiming "oh, I didn't mean anything bad." It's the same as calling something "retarded," or "ghetto." I don't like any of those words used as a pejorative, even "jokingly." Grow up, people! - Jim Milles via twhirl
I thought it was very hardcore geeky of them. I don't know if it is gay, but I go all gay for google services. :) - Jay Cruz
Bashing comics in a geek forum? Not sure that's the best tactic to get your point across. - Brian Norwood
Regardless, it's obvious why the word "gay" came to be used the way it has by teenagers and others and you used to sound "hip". It meant "queer, different, lame" just as homosexuals are considered the same by that group. It was not as if someone wanted another word for "lame" and gay was just picked out of thin air. You're smarter than that, and I know your smarter than to think writing that word in that way to the extremely educated users on FriendFeed/Twitter wouldn't be problematic. - Brandon Werner
Brian: Yah, I made two huge gaffes in one tweet. Not my day. - David Risley
Brandon, I do agree. The intellectual side of me, of course, knows that. Sometimes my stupid side tweets without thinking about how it can be taken by others. - David Risley
I just read the comic, and for me, it worked. A lot of information was delivered, and with the benefit of interesting drawings, I felt that I got more from this than several pages of a White Paper. - Henry Burger
I was so excited to see more of Scott McCloud's work. He does a great job of explaining why the browser is better in ways that laypeople can understand. I only found it ironic that one of the pioneers of transitioning comics into the digital realm ended up making a 32-page print comic to tout a new browser. Note that I would find it a lot less ironic if I got a hold of one of the print copies. - Kevin Fox
It was an architecture document narrated by Engineers, disguised as a comic. I was thinking as I read it "I should do this with my stuff" :-) - Brandon Werner
"gay" is used frequently in australia interchangebly with gh3y and other variants. hey Scoble, the US's prudish view doesn't reflect the world. - David Petar Novakovic via twhirl
Comic book idea is a stroke of genius. - Mike Reynolds
I thought it was pretty clever too. It's just funny. And different. Anime and Manga have made "comics" quite popular the past few years. - Jaemi kehoe
@David Petar Novakovic (dpn): So, what you're saying is that Scoble getting all up in arms about something being 'ghey' is faggotry of the first order? (Sophistry is fun! Irony is fun! My gay friends pwning me in Call of Duty and snickering in chat that my camping spots on Bloc are ghey is ... not so fun, but funny, and I'm willing to accept that.) - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
So I take it the Puritans in this thread prefer that language stop evolving? Frankly I'd rather see gay (and especially ghey) used much more often in a humorous or ironic context. This'll help marginalize the few people remaining on the planet who actually would use it as an implication that someone's sexuality is a valid measure of their societal worth. This whole thread is ghey if you ask me. - Anthony Citrano
If it is slang that was never used in a discriminatory manner against a group of people, slang should be fine. Its just if its going to FF, a lot of really liberal minds are going to see it. - Simian DA (Amber)
I actually have no problem with the word that David used as it gets used constantly with my group of friends the majority of whom happen to be the ones against which that word supposedly discriminates. I just don't use that language in public forums because some people are more sensitive than others and I respect that they may have a problem with it even if I, and everyone else I know, does not. - Akiva Moskovitz
I hate to say it, but folks are real quick to jump on folks with different ideas sometimes. I was just saying be careful. - Simian DA (Amber)
I purposefully hide that thread so I wouldn't comment something I would regret, if it makes you feel any better ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
meh, words only have the power that one assigns them. - Mattb4rd
I can relate to what the guy is going through. I went through it with a different word last week. - ::Kristen::
Simian, definitely lesson learned on this one. - David Risley
David: I don't think you deserve a block for this; I think you'll probably remember this experience, so there's no good to come from dwelling on it. Live and learn. :) - Mark Dykeman
Mattb4rd that's bull. How did Nazi Germany happen? I just was in Berlin to study just that. It started with everyday people's use of language against another group. The word David used connotates a certain group of people and it wasn't used in a friendly way. That's why I reacted so harshly to make sure that David (and everyone) understands that kind of language will not be tolerated around me. My visit to Berlin last week made me even more steadfast in that world view. - Robert Scoble
The germans are hupersensitive about their history because they don't want to piss anyone off. it's not reflective of the rest of the world. I suspect you found one other group of people who mirror your dislike of that word and are clinging onto it. (note: i have a very strong german heriatage... do you?) - David Petar Novakovic via twhirl
scoble, I do understand and I agree with you. You can block me if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that it was just a moment of stupid twittering and not a reflection of what you think I meant. I got the point, though. - David Risley
Mr. Scoble, it happened because far more than words were employed. - Mattb4rd
I think the big thing is to not confuse a word with actual intention. I think focusing too much on the symbol devalues the actual essence of the issue. That is the danger of political correctness in the first place. - David Risley
Wow. Godwin's Law in response to someone saying 'kinda gay.' That hasta be a new record, even for you, Robert. You might as well have quoted President Bush: "If you say something's 'kinda gay,' that means the terrorists win!" - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Re commenting: I think the issue here is two-fold. One, we should be more careful in atributing blame when we see things like that, taking care to find out the facts FIRST. Two, before saying/writing things like that, we should consider others. Now I'm NOT suggesting anything - people have the right to say whatever they want (that includes Scoble), but there has to be a reasonable limit to how far things go. PC in general goes a wee bit too far IMHO. And I'm not taking any sides here. Just saying - Roberto Bonini
Stay tuned, Putin is about to cure cancer from the research he's been performing in his basement. This guy's unbelievable! - Jim McCusker
This reminds me of stories you'd hear of Stakhanovite workers in the Soviet Union crossed with medieval lives of the saints. - Paul Haahr
I'm sorry Duncan but this one is actually far from truth. The tiger was not attacking anyone - it was a schedule activity all the way. By the way, after participating in this event Putin thanked American scientists for their help during the 90s when the government had sparse resource to finance such activities to preserve the population of Amur tigers. - Svetlana Gladkova
The first step is that Russia has to admit that it has a drinking and invading problem ... - Jay Tannenbaum
"...unlike US Vice President Dick Cheney who famously shot a hunter back in 2006." Fail. - Mladen Srdić
According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, this must be a hoax. These tranquilizer guns are pretty common, and an expert using the same one Putin is pictured with, says it would take 10-20 minutes for the tiger to fall asleep after being shot. Even with a perfect shot straight to the heart, it would take 5-20 seconds before it fell asleep, and it would have been able to attack the tv-team long before that, as they were very close to the tiger. - Oyvind Solstad
+1 Oyvind -- I've saw video of a tiger stuck in a tree that was shot with a tranq. It took a looong time for it to take effect. It had enough time jump down the tree chase down and maul a few people before trying to escape into a river - Shey
i wonder if putin packs heat during a normal day .. would not be surprised - Gregory Lent
Game development post mortems all sound the same: The game was late. It had too many bugs. Functionality was not what was originally intended. Getting the game out the door took too many development hours and the development team was under too much pressure. Even when the game was launched, management was not pleased. - David Petar Novakovic
I am the technical lead (and now also ScrumMaster) on a development team that spent most of 2006 implementing various agile practices into our daily routine. We had traditionally followed a waterfall process, so it was a little difficult at first to get the team members (and management) to digest some of the new agile methods (Two- week iterations? Developers writing tests? No Gantt charts?)—we truly were stepping through the looking glass. - David Petar Novakovic
Sebastian Bergmann pointed out a blog entry of Sebastian Nohn who has written blog about how to setup Continuous Integration with CruiseControl, Ant and PHPUnit. - David Petar Novakovic
Even though Selenium has been widely used for testing web applications, we did not find any resources linking Selenium to Flash or Flex when we started developing and testing Flash applications ourselves. After some work, however, we had a working solution for Selenium to test a deployed Flash application. - David Petar Novakovic
The most difficult thing to grasp in Flash for the non-programmer is Object-Oriented Programming techniques. Luckily for us in the latest release of Flash, Flash MX. Object Oriented programming techniques have become easier than ever to start using. - David Petar Novakovic
Google Tech Talks September 5, 2006 Ken Schwaber co-developed the Agile process, Scrum. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Ken has been a software developer for over thirty years. He is an active advocate and evangelist for Agile processes. - David Petar Novakovic
With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package. Pencil will always be free and can run on virtually all platforms that Firefox 3 supports. - David Petar Novakovic
Hi David, why do you say that? The API is open, etc. This is the first I have heard of this, would mind elongating your answer? - Roger Kondrat
could that be a separate business? as was summize, tweetscan, etc? i don't know how they get along, and how much they want to share... i rarely encounter intense debate ... - Gregory Lent
Hi Gregory, intense debate is very popular although not as popular as Disqus granted as well SezWho has a large following too. I know Rahsheen uses a non-disqus comment system. I use both Disqus and ID on two sites. I don't really think the project depends on how they get along since they both use APIs in their plugin so their consent is unnecessary but their support would make sense and be appreciated of course - Roger Kondrat
The Gillmor Gang talked about referencing URIs to link discussions across the web. - Vezquex
I didn't know that, can you drop the link in here? - Roger Kondrat
I love FF3, Memory is my favorite improvement XD - fiorano
It's a lot faster and I love how a 'new tab' button is defaulted... It's going to take some time to get used to. Do you have theme recommendations? - Mona N.
Since I'm now on Linux, it was either FF3 or Opera. I installed Opera. Hated it. Went back to FF3. It's nice, but slow on my system. - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy
Dennis: I was waiting for all the add-ons + stability. I dl'd it, to contribute to the 'World Record' thing, but never installed. @LG: I'm so used to FFx interface, Safari doesn't do it for me... That, and I'm not a keyboard shortcut person. - Mona N.
SB and fiorano: is the memory allocation what's making it run so smooth? i've still yet to read up on the exact changes - Mona N.
It already themes itself to the OS so if you're using Mac than it would look like Safari. - Andrew Trinh
How do I make the toolbar smaller? @Andrew: I KNOW ugh - Mona N.
I love FF3 but unstable is right. Though I think my issue is more about the add-ons, specifically firebug. blip.fm locks up FF3 constantly. I often have to force quit due to unresponsiveness. The reason it's "Safari-like" has to do with OS UI consistency, using native controls instead of application-drawn controls. - ·[•_•]·
FF2 used to use like 160M on averrage. FF3 is usually 90M or less. They could have kept the featureset exactly the same and that would have been enough for me to switch :) - Rahsheen
Does anyone know how to adjust the toolbar size in the default theme? - Mona N.
Which OS are you using Mona? View-Toolbars-Customise-Use Small Icons. - Andrew Trinh
OS X 10.5.4.... It's the bookmark toolbar I'm having the most issues with, ugh! - Mona N.
Really? Firefox 3 is amazing. I love it alot more than 2. Less of a memory hog. - Nate Pilling via twhirl
I've been running FF 3.0 on XP on three different PCs since it came out and haven't had any problems with it. I like the UI enhancements. - Jeff P. Henderson
Everything is too... large? for me, I don't like how the 'new tab' button is on the right, I don't understand why the RSS icon is blue, I hate how my bookmarks on my toolbar aren't buttons =| I'm trying to get used to it... - Mona N.
Right-click next to the address bar, customize and select to use small icons - ·[•_•]·
Be sure to check out The Awesome Bar. - Andrew Trinh
don't forget to install cooliris extension.. - Pico Seno
Hate the UI? It's just a refinement of FF2...but so much faster and way better memory usage wise. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Pico: Ok :) Alex: I hate how everything is big, bubbly, and IN MY FACE. I hate how it's too Safari-ish, I hate how my bookmarks aren't separated by buttons, I how how the RSS icon is BLUE... - Mona N.
Looks like you have spacers in that toolbar. Mine is nicely compact and spaced without using any spacers. - ·[•_•]·
I liked FF3 in beta better than in final release. - Drew Z
Last.fm only does previews on individual song requests. You have to play a 'station' to get full tracks. Otherwise you might only listen to songs you like, and that would just be unacceptable - Glenn Slaven
Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.
Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site. - Kyle Lacy
woah - very cool!!! i found your boy by the way... In 20 years maybe the entire world will be mapped this way. Very cool... Kinda frightening though that this could give people a basic walkthrough of your house... - Tad - just Tad
no mac, bummer cmon microsoft hurry up on all the mac support jesus theyre just asking to lose the cloud. - adolfo foronda
